Macromolecules
Before Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
Cellular Respiration
Big Picture
100

This is the definition of a macromolecule

What is a large molecule?

100
The organelle where light is captured in a plant cell.
What is chloroplasts.
100

The molecule that captures sunlight

What is chlorophyll?

100
The organelle that performs cellular respiration in ALL plant and animal cells.
What are mitochondria?
100
It converts food into energy, allowing us to think, breathe, and move. Basically, we would not be alive without it.
What is cellular respiration?
200
These are the four types of macromolecules

Lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and proteins

200
This is where water enters the plants.
What are roots? or What is the ground?
200

The reactants of photosynthesis

What are Carbon Dioxide, Water?

200

The energy currency of the cell

What is ATP?

200

Define metabolism

All of the chemical reactions that occur to make life processes possible

300

This is the function of carbohydrates

What is to provide short term energy and to provide structural support (like building a cell wall)?

300
The place carbon dioxide comes from before entering the leaf.
What is the atmosphere?
300

The products of Photosynthesis

What are Glucose and Oxygen?

300

The reactants of cellular respiration

What are Glucose and Oxygen?

300

The cycle that keeps the amounts of carbon dioxide and oxygen fairly constant in the atmosphere

What is the cycle made by photosynthesis and cellular respiration?

Or what is the Carbon-Oxygen cycle?

400
These are the elements found in carbohydrates

What is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen?

400

Why is photosynthesis so important?

Photosynthesis converts sun energy into food, making energy available for plants and animals. It also makes Oxygen, which we need to breathe.

400

It breaks the bonds in carbon dioxide and water so that the molecules can be rearranged to make the products.

What does sunlight do in photosynthesis?

400

The products of cellular respiration

What are Carbon Dioxide, Water, and ATP?

400

An increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere might increase the amount of this process happening.

What is photosynthesis?

500

Use legos to explain the difference between monomers and polymers

What is one lego is a monomer and all of the legos together, making something, is a polymer?
500
The holes in the bottom of leaves through which carbon dioxide enters the leaf.
What are stomata?
500

The chemical equation for photosynthesis

What is Carbon Dioxide + Water ---> Sugar + Oxygen?

500

The chemical AND word equation for cellular respiration

What is C6H12O6 + 6O2 --> 6CO2+6H2O and ATP energy

What is glucose plus oxygen makes carbon dioxide, water and ATP?

500

This process will screech to a halt if Virginia goes into a major drought in the summer.

What is photosynthesis?

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